Child Myopia Quotes & Sayings

No more was seen the human form divine. — Alexander Pope

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together - surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing. — Carl Sagan

When you walk in the light, you will feel some of the warmth and the happiness that will finally be yours when you are welcomed home again with the hundreds and perhaps thousands of others whom you will bring with you, who have walked in the light because you did. — Henry B. Eyring

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast. — Sarah Manguso

On a date, you shared your deep thoughts with each other, but not that deep. We were eating sandwiches, for God's sake. — Jennifer Echols

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that. — Aaron Lazar

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. — Mark Twain

Habits die hard and absence doesn't stop my fingers from searching. — Carrie Ryan

I just rolled up the window, I couldn't think of anything else to do, phew I'm safe from the .375 gun now that I've rolled up the fucking window — Gerard Way

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran

First impressions are everything, and second impressions are nothing — Nicole Williams

The England I write about doesn't strike me as the real one. — Martha Grimes

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying. — Jessica Savitch